Ashok Kumar (British politician)

Infobox MP
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name = Ashok Kumar
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constituency_MP = Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
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majority = 8,000 (18.3%)
predecessor = "new constituency"
successor = Incumbent
term_start = 1 May 1997
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constituency_MP2 = Langbaurgh
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majority2 =
predecessor2 = Richard Holt
successor2 = Michael Walton Bates
term_start2 = 7 November 1991
term_end2 = 9 April 1992
birth_date = Birth date and age|1956|05|28|df=yes
birth_place = Uttar Pradesh, India
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nationality = British
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party = Labour
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alma_mater = Aston University
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profession = Chemical engineer
religion = Humanist


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footnotes =Dr Ashok Kumar (born 28 May 1956, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland and a Chartered Engineer.

Education and early career

He attended Rykneld Boys' Secondary Modern School (merged with Bemrose Grammar School in 1975 and is now Bemrose Community School), Derby, UK, then studied at Derby & District College of Art & Technology. He studied Chemical Engineering at Aston University, Birmingham UK, obtaining a BSc in 1978. He stayed on to obtain an MSc in Process Analysis and Control Theory in 1980, and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics in 1982. The thesis title was "Velocity distributions in a plate heat exchanger". He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Energy Institute.

He began his career as a Research Fellow at Imperial College London (1982-5) then worked as a research scientist at British Steel, Middlesbrough from 1985-97.

Political career

He began his political career as a local councillor for Middlesbrough Borough Council (1987 - 97). He first became an MP in a 1991 by-election, winning the Langbaurgh constituency but lost his seat to the Conservative party shortly after at the 1992 election. He won his present constituency at the 1997 election.

He is a Member of Parliamentary Scientific Committee; Vice-Chair of Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies; Chair of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST); and Chair of Northern Group of Labour MPs.

Other interests

Ashok Kumar is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and Labour Friends of Israel [http://www.lfi.org.uk/who_we_are] . He lists his recreations as "Cricket, badminton, reading history and philosophy, listening to jazz". Aston University gave him an honorary degree in July 1997.

External links

* [http://www.ashokkumar.org.uk Personal website]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-2976,00.html GuardianUnlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Ashok Kumar MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ashok_kumar/middlesbrough_south_and_east_cleveland TheyWorkForYou.com - Ashok Kumar MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/403.stm BBC Politics]

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NAME=Kumar, Ashok
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom; MP 1991–1992, 1997–present
DATE OF BIRTH=28 May 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH=Uttar Pradesh, India
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